Hi folks, this is Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

Hi, I'm Molly John Fess, novelist and editor at large at the Daily Beast and the person

who tells Rick not to tweet the things he wants to tweet.

I'm an editor at large at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best

selling author and full-time troublemaker.

The new abnormal is about one nation under a pandemic and how it's changing all of us.

We'll talk about what's happening in the country and the culture and look at good and

bad people, leadership and ideas.

Molly and I come from very different political worlds, but what brings us together is that

we both love America.

We realize that putting our country over party and ideas over ideology might be the only

thing that gets us through this.

We'll be joined by smart gas from media, politics, culture, medicine and science.

I'll try to keep Rick to the minimum number of curse words and try to keep our pets and

other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

Hey, so Molly, do you know who's been treated worse than almost any other president, especially

even Lincoln?

No, I don't.

Can you tell me?

I feel...

No, I can't tell you, but you could tune in last night to the Fox News Adjut Prop Channel

and watch a sacred American space, the Lincoln Memorial, a place that honors the man who bound

...